Lewine, Richard

Richard Lewine was born in New York City on July 10, 1910. He attended the Franklin School, where he was an active athlete. He studied music at Columbia University.

Lewine launched his composing career writing songs with lyricist June Sillman for the Broadway revue, Fools Rush In (1934) and with lyricist John Latouche for the Off-Broadway play Murder in the Old Red Barn (1936). He then wrote three musicals with lyricist Ted Fetter and librettist John Van Antwerp. Naughty-Naught and The Fireman’s Flame were produced Off-Broadway in 1937 and The Girl from Wyoming (1938) on Broadway. In 1939, Lewine was musical director for a show at Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Club, Fair Enough, which had songs by Alan Jay Lerner.

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